Sad to hear this. Especially because it is the rocket-heat problem that leads to this decision, which was mentioned a long time ago.

Why can't you use an Energy Shield? Are you missing the Energy & Heat Combination or the Regeneration & Cooldown Modules?

really the only hard hitting weapons i have are energy and with the energy shield only doing 2 for 1 it would deplete incredibly fast. imo energy shields are useless and every1 i fight that uses an energy shield loses it before their 3rd turn against me

What Torso are you using? My impression is that on higher levels (22-30), the Energy Shields turn out to be pretty resistant, as the people have a high capacity and regeneration. This, however, is hardly the case at lower levels (15-21). At the lower leves, the missiles are also much less of a problem.

But I also have the impression if you concentrate very hard on the shield (capacity & regeneration), it is extremly hard to break it. But this once again depends on the modules, for high energy regeneration, you need better ones than the common ones. In the past, they had a huge regeneration, now this has been tweaked down, making the rare, high regeneration modules very powerful.

i have the dragon and i promise you energy doesnt last i can take out energy shields of people that have like 180 energy within a few turns it isnt hard and as i said having energy weapons with an energy shield is a no

You and your multi accounts, isnt that like your 3rd account?

[/quote]not exactly LikeAboss is my 6th and cladj is 7th , well the other ones are less of a success loss more than 1400 and won just 800 [/quote]

let me know when we can choose levels on the item boxs

+10 mate

The only reason why SM will get better from now on is because after that big gameplay change/update, SM hit the rock bottom. There's nothing more to make this game any worse. So, your words about SM getting better are correct.
Though, i don't think the SM will never reach it's glory days like it was with the old gameplay system.

The reason for this gameplay change was to appeal to new users, but the gameplay itself was never broken and it did not need that change. The problem was about something completely different that is avoided even now. Though, there are some thoughts how to fix the "real" problem.

As far as retiring goes, i, myself, have also retired from PvP battles. Reason for that is the same as everyone else have, i don't have a competitive build.

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Again I restate that SM is doing and has been doing better post update than before. Yes there as a few of the old players that dislike it such as yourself but the numbers don't lie. The fact that it is doing better now only lends strength to its future. As for the basis of the game that did need to change because the game before had no future but as it is now it does. All this at this point is rather repetitive though since I have said it countless times on multiple threads.

dude it's not more competitive have you seen how many people just wipe the floor at the levels they are playing almost unchallenged?